Brokenman, I have been busy with other things that I have not had a chance to visit Porteus forum, but I am still onboard and running
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Linux porteus 3.17.4-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 24 21:19:14 Local time zone must be set-- x86_64 AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
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I have used other distros like Fedora since Fedora Core 2 and have seen many changes over time. I have seen what has happened since the beginning. I did not know much about Slackware, but I used Slax back then and I liked it. I still used Fedora as a desktop up until Fedora 20. I still have a Fedora 20 machine. I have seen personally some of the changes taking place. They(RedHat Fedora's parent distro) use it as a testing bed for new technologies. I have seen the pulseaudio stuff, I did not like it, but I still used Fedora. Now I see that systemd is a big mess, it is trying to take over a great deal of stuff. Much stuff does not run without it. I believe that bloat is not needed, and adding it to porteus would be a waste of time and resources. If it is needed, then sadly many users may just leave to use other operating sytems. I hope that Slackware remains true to its defining image and not succumb to systemd. To me it is like the final frontier. Luckily we have FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, haiku and/or plan 9 some of these I have not tried, but I am willing to play and tinker now if systemd enters the picture. I have used Fedora and Fedora 20 will likely be my last one to use. I hope that it does not come to that. I know that gnome3/mate and others require it, also Gentoo has it there as well. The times of simple log files, and not pile of bloat upon an init system. Booting faster is not important to me, I like Porteus run from CD/LiveDVD or thumb drive(usb) and I hope that systemd stays away from incorporating it.
I have used chkconfig, red had sysvinit which listed many services. Now, with that systemd stuff it is more cryptic and not nice. runlevels are complicated. They(programmers) want everything to depend on it. I do not agree with that, and like I have stated, I have followed Fedora since Core 2. I do not like the direction that they are headed and have only one machine with Fedora 20. I hope that Slackware and Patrick V dont go that route, because if it happens it will likely be the end of a great ride. Good thing is that Patrick likes KISS philosophy and will likely do the most he can to stay away from that. I admire your effort and dedication, but it(systemd) is a daemon(init system) that wants to take over many things which do not make sense and are unneeded.
In my humble opinion => SystemD > /dev/null 2>&1
I believe systemd is the best thing since sliced bread.
